College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University,Seoul, Republic of Korea.
J Pediatr Nurs. 2019 Nov-Dec;49:e21-e28. doi: 10.1016/j.pedn.2019.07.013. Epub 2019 Aug 8.
This study aimed to define the level of perceived stress, social support, and paternal role confidence in Korean fathers with high risk infants and investigate how they perceived stress and social support influence their confidence in paternal role.
A descriptive study was conducted. The participants were 160 fathers of high risk infants admitted for 72 h or longer in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Using a self-reported questionnaire, high risk infants' fathers' general characteristics, stress, social support, and confidence in paternal role were measured.
Fathers' low stress from the sights and sounds of the unit, more family members and fathers' awareness of the infants' prognosis were found to have a significant influence on paternal role confidence for high risk infants, explaining 18.7% variance in the effect.
To assist fathers in developing paternal role confidence in their parenting, nurses should comprehend the degree of stress experienced by fathers whose infants were hospitalized in an NICU and offer supportive nursing to them to help them cope with their stress.
When preparing a nursing care plan for high risk infants and their fathers, if nurses help fathers to participate in infants' care and offer proper information to them to understand the environment of the NICU, actions taken for their infants, and infants' prognosis, the fathers' confidence in their paternal role is expected to improve.
本研究旨在确定高风险婴儿的韩国父亲的感知压力、社会支持和父亲角色自信水平，并探讨他们如何感知压力和社会支持影响其父亲角色自信。
本研究采用描述性研究方法。参与者为在新生儿重症监护病房（NICU）住院 72 小时或以上的 160 名高风险婴儿的父亲。使用自我报告问卷，测量了高风险婴儿父亲的一般特征、压力、社会支持和父亲角色自信。
发现父亲对单位的声音和景象的低压力、更多的家庭成员和父亲对婴儿预后的认识，对高风险婴儿的父亲角色自信有显著影响，解释了 18.7%的效应变异。
为了帮助父亲在育儿中建立父亲角色自信，护士应该了解在 NICU 住院的婴儿的父亲所经历的压力程度，并为他们提供支持性护理，帮助他们应对压力。
在为高风险婴儿及其父亲制定护理计划时，如果护士帮助父亲参与婴儿护理，并为他们提供适当的信息，让他们了解 NICU 的环境、对婴儿的行动以及婴儿的预后，那么父亲对自己父亲角色的信心有望提高。
